How to add, upload, and tag your pictures and photos in FaceBook

Posted on August 11, 2007 at 11:24 am

If you’re a FaceBook user, you may have seen that some of the photos posted on people’s albums show their name when scrolled over with the mouse. This is called tagging a photo and it’s quite easy to do. In the process, I’ll explain quickly how you can upload photos to your FaceBook account to create albums or to update your profile picture.

To manage your photos or to tags other people’s photos, click on Photos in the left hand menu.

By default, you’ll see a list of recent photo albums and recently tagged photos from your friends. Click on My Photos to at the very top to create a new album.

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With FaceBook, every photo that you upload has to be in an album, so click create your first album to get started. You can upload as many photos as you want per album, but it’s usually a good idea to create a new album for a related set of photos, i.e. wedding party, trip to Vegas, cruise ship, etc. Give you album a name, location, and choose who can view it.

You may be asked to install the Java plugin for IE, click Yes to accept. Now you can simply browse your computer hard drive and add the files by checking off the box at the top of each picture or clicking the Select All button. When you move your cursor over a picture, you can also rotate it to the right or left using the circles.

When you are finished, click the Upload button at the top right. Once uploaded, you’ll be allowed to edit the photos before the album is created. Here you can add a caption, choose the picture for the album cover and delete a photo if you’ve changed your mind.

To tag a person in the photo, just put your mouse pointer on the face of the person and left click. A box appears that lets you choose the person from your list of friends, including yourself.

Once you’re done tagging everyone, you can save the changes and you’ll have the option to share the album with friends and family, even if they are not FaceBook members.

To update your FaceBook profile picture, click on Profile at the very top, and then click on Edit My Profile underneath the location of your profile pic.

Click on Picture and then click the Browse button to upload a new profile picture. The new uploaded picture will become your default profile picture. In order to change your profile picture, you have to upload the photo. FaceBook creates a Profile Picture Album, but for some reason you can’t switch between profile pictures by choosing them from the album, you have to re-upload the picture.

That’s about all there is to it! Enjoy!

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28 Responses to “How to add, upload, and tag your pictures and photos in FaceBook”

sally warr said on : July 29th, 2008 at 6:56 pm

I am trying to add photos to the view photos of me icon on my profile. I want to put photos of my son in there but when i tag a photo of him from my album I have to tag my name so when someone looks at photo it sais my name too when i am not in the photo??? How can i add photos in here doing it in a simple way?? Its easy to make and alter an album but i want my photos in here…

please help..

sy said on : November 13th, 2008 at 2:05 am

got problem uploading photos,…
after i install java plugin for IE , the following appear: “select all” , “deselect all” & “upload”

“upload” can’t press ?

robin said on : November 25th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

I have a picture someone sent me via email that i want displayed on my facebook page or profile pict how do i upload the picture? Or my question is how to i add it to my fb page?

Mike Percy said on : December 11th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

Hi,
I have been looking to solve a problem i have with tagging friends in my new album. When I click on ‘Tag’ and then click on their face, a really big box appears. It is far too big for the photo and I can’t reduce it’s size!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Mike Percy

akishore said on : December 12th, 2008 at 11:30 am

Hey Mike, if you are having issues tagging photos on Facebook, it could be the browser you are using. Try IE or Firefox, etc and see if it keeps happening to you.

Esther said on : December 13th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

I’m with Mike – when tagging group photos, it’s pretty much impossible to know to whom the tag refers, because it covers so much space. Is it possible to make the tag boxes smaller? (Akishore – I use Firefox; I think it’s a Facebook thing.)
Thanks,

akishore said on : December 14th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

Hmmm that is so weird because I have no problems tagging photos. All I do is draw the box around the person and that’s it. Maybe instead of clicking on the picture first and allowing it to put a default sized box on the photo, you should just try to click on one spot and drag the box to the size you want. That’s what I do and it works well. Let me know…

Esther said on : December 14th, 2008 at 9:54 pm

No, it didn’t work.

akishore said on : December 15th, 2008 at 12:02 am

Hmmm…now I seem to have the opposite problem! The box is too small! It’s one size for all the pictures and I can’t change it…there are millions of people tagging photos everyday on Facebook, so we must be doing something wrong.

Elizabeth said on : December 29th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

Thank you so much! That really helped.

Brandi said on : January 7th, 2009 at 2:25 pm

How do I tag an entire album to several people?

Bryan said on : February 16th, 2009 at 4:16 pm

How do you add photos to an existing album?

Leslie said on : February 22nd, 2009 at 8:59 pm

How do I make sure that my uploaded photos are the normal size? My photos, once uploaded, are much smaller than normal.

Edmond said on : February 24th, 2009 at 6:49 am

I realized that Facebook has a limitation of up to only 60 photos. How to go about adding more than 60 photos?

Trisha said on : February 25th, 2009 at 10:50 pm

Edmond – to upload more, make a new album! :]

Bobby said on : February 28th, 2009 at 12:03 pm

The size of the tagging box is to big! I try and tag someone but the head is to small so I end up haveing to tag to people at once! Does anyone know if its possible to make it smaller? And if it is, how?

-Bobby

Jill said on : March 3rd, 2009 at 10:36 am

How can I share pictures between my facebook and my daughters myspace page?

sean said on : March 17th, 2009 at 6:10 pm

Anybody know how to control the order of the photos? It’s nice when an album can tell a story instead of just being all jumbled up.

Talya said on : April 8th, 2009 at 8:07 pm

Hello

I have a group on facebook and I want to be able to tag our fans in the photos we take. Is this possible?

Any help much appreciated!

Talya

Al said on : June 4th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

If a friend uploads a photo and tags me in that photo, can everyone in my friend list see the photo, or just those who are tagged?

Lior said on : June 23rd, 2009 at 2:12 pm

Does facebook limit the size of the pictures you upload? If so, what are the limits?

Lior

Your Face said on : June 27th, 2009 at 10:05 pm

How do i make a facebook tag box smaller?!

cathy wombold said on : July 29th, 2009 at 6:07 pm

I tried to upload a picture from my computer on my friend’s wall and it won’t let me send it. Any ideas?

thamo khumalo said on : September 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 am

hi there! I have been relentlessly trying to upload my pictures to my Facebook profile, but all my attempts have been in vain… pls help here, i’m on mobile facebook.

shellie said on : October 5th, 2009 at 4:20 pm

i have a lot of photos on my profile that i have been tagged in, how do i rotate them as they are the wrong way round?

vicky said on : October 7th, 2009 at 6:20 am

hi, i am trying to upload my friends photo’s that shes got on her page onto my page as it has pictures from a party and i want it on my page. Is that possible because i have been trying to do it but cant seem to. how would you do this if it was possible??

Casey said on : October 26th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

how do i take pictures off my myspace and load them onto my facebook?

STACEY NIXON said on : November 4th, 2009 at 7:43 pm

I was wondering if I can upload pictures from my mobile phone to my Facebook account? I have a lot of pictures saved on the phone.